Friday, January 21, 2011

Blackwater Founder Is Said to Back African Mercenaries - NYTimes.com

Blackwater Founder Is Said to Back African Mercenaries - NYTimes.com:

"With its barely functional government and a fierce hostility to foreign armies since the hasty American withdrawal from Mogadishu in the early 1990s, Somalia is a country where Western militaries have long feared to tread. This has created an opportunity for private security companies like Saracen to fill the security vacuum created by years of civil war."